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Krämer, Ludwig --- "Some Reflections on the EU Mix of Instruments on Climate Change" [2006] ELECD 439; in Peeters, Marjan; Deketelaere, Kurt (eds), "EU Climate Change Policy" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006)

Book Title: EU Climate Change Policy

Editor(s): Peeters, Marjan; Deketelaere, Kurt

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845426057

Section: Chapter 15

Section Title: Some Reflections on the EU Mix of Instruments on Climate Change

Author(s): Krämer, Ludwig

Number of pages: 18

Extract:

15. some reflections on the EU mix of
instruments on climate change
Ludwig Krämer1

1. iNtroDUCtioN
For about 15 years, the struggle against man-made climate change has progres-
sively become one of the top political priorities of the European Union (EU).
in 1994, the EU concluded the United Nations Framework Convention on Cli-
mate Change (UNFCCC)2 and subsequently deployed considerable efforts to
reach a consensus on the Kyoto Protocol of 1997.3 Both the Prodi Commission
(1999­2004) and the new Barroso Commission (2004­09), supported in that
from numerous declarations by the European Council, the EU Council and the
European Parliament, declared the fight against climate change as a subject of
political priority for the EU in the years to come. the importance of this position
of the EU is not diminished by the fact that these political declarations, state-
ments and resolutions also offered the EU an opportunity to gain worldwide
credit and respect, in view of the well-known negative attitude of the United
states (Us) to take any serious measure to reduce the emission of greenhouse
gases. indeed, the EU has put its whole political and economic weight into the
attempt to limit climate change that is caused by human activities and has ac-
cepted global leadership in the climate change discussion, though neither its
internal structure nor the instruments and resources at its disposal enabled it to
really assume such a leadership role.
this chapter neither tries to discuss the dispute between ...


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